AFSC Youth Service Projects
Summer Youth Workshop and Fellowship
"Together with a dozen Mexican-American families, we helped build not just houses, but a community. It was a fantastic experience."
- 1995 California Self-Help Housing Project Participant Since June, 1990, the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) and Intermountain Yearly Meeting (IMYM) of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) have conducted a special form of learning and service involving youth and adults. We live in a nation of varied and often conflicting value systems that tend to pull us away from the traditional Quaker testimonies of community, harmony, peace, equality and simplicity. To find and share a new, practical understanding of these testimonies, we believe service is necessary for us.
Our projects are designed to connect small, intergenerational groups of youth and adults (ages 14 and up, and not limited to Friends) with the work of the AFSC. We seek opportunities for service that will build continuing relationships with communities. We open ourselves to be guided by the Spirit into more informed, respectful ways of living in peaceful balance with our planet and its many societies.
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